SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has assigned Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to resume dialogue with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), DawnNews reported on Wednesday.
The decision was taken at a high-level advisory meeting held at the PM House, which was attended by Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid, Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Safron Minister Abdul Qadir Baloch, Governor KP Sardar Mehtab and Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif among others.
The meeting was held to discuss prevailing political atmosphere amid protests and shut down calls by the Imran Khan led PTI.
Prime Minister Sharif wanted the dialogue with the PTI to be resumed at earliest. The government would also ask the PTI to call off their ‘plan C’ to shut down cities and subsequently the country in coming weeks.
End protest for resumption of dialogue: Rashid
Earlier today, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid said that the government was willing to resume dialogue with PTI but for that Imran Khan would have to return to his container and call off his party’s protests in different parts of the country,Radio Pakistan reported.
Rashid was speaking to reporters in the federal capital and said that the dialogue was discontinued on the direction of the PTI chief and the other way around.
Imran Khan should abandon his plan of closing different cities and come on the previous stage to provide a conducive environment for dialogue, the federal minister said.
A judicial commission would also be constituted and would start functioning as soon as there is a conducive environment for it, Rashid said in response to a question, adding that the decisions of the commission will be accepted and not criticised.
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